Fisher's Wife, The (The Fisherman)

DESCRIPTION: Every day, "from morning's dawn till dark night," she watches the ocean for her husband's bark, long ago lost in a storm
AUTHOR: Joseph Philip Knight (source: Frank-JollySailorsBold)
EARLIEST DATE: 1863 (source: Frank-JollySailorsBold)
KEYWORDS: grief marriage home parting death fishing storm wreck wife
FOUND IN: US(NE)
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Frank-JollySailorsBold 197, "The Fisher's Wife (The Fisherman)" (1 text, 1 tune)
File: FJSB197

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